What is a file path and why is it important to high tech crime investigators?

What will be an ideal response?


A file path is the exact description of where on the drive a file exists. Documenting the exact file path of an evidence file or contraband file is very important. This would be similar to documenting where a baggie of cocaine was located within a crime scene.

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A criminalist is more likely to obtain DNA from hairs in the:

a. Anagenic stage. b. Catagenic stage. c. Telogenic stage. d. Terminal stage.

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The separate system is part of which model?

a. Pennsylvania prison model b. New York prison model c. Walnut Street Jail d. Western Pennsylvania Prison

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Which of the following defines sexual assault on male victims as forcible rape?

a. Only the FBI b. Neither the FBI nor any state c. The FBI and some states d. Only some states

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Paul and John witness a murder. As the murderer fled the scene, Paul heard him say, “I didn’t mean to kill her, I didn’t mean to kill her.” How can the prosecutor get Paul’s statement admitted at the suspect’s trial? What if Paul has since moved out of the country and is unavailable to attend the trial?

What will be an ideal response?

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